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Jacob O'Bryant
Personal blog · jacobobryant.com/postprogrammingstartups
Jacob O'Bryant's personal blog at jacobobryant.com covers programming and startups. Since 2019, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 43 times, most often “A Brief History of Agile”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jacob O'Bryant's posts on Clojure and programming frameworks, including why he likes Clojure, and a post on an RSS-style app idea. The comments only cite or link them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Software engineer, etc etc
Most-linked posts?
- A Brief History of Agile3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-04-04
- Building a CRUD App with Datomic Cloud Ions2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-05-11
- The Solo Hacker's Guide to Clojure2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-02-04
- Landing Pages with Clojure and Firebase2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-02-11
- Growing a Framework, Or, Clojure Made Easy2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-06-12
What Hacker News says?
Here's mine: https://jacobobryant.com/ Can't vouch for if it's any good though ;)
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on “Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?”Submitted Move fast, but understand the problem first as a story · 306 points
HN discussionOne of my predictions/hopes is that part-time work becomes far more prevalent. In addition to the benefits already mentioned here, it would be great for people who want to be e.g. entrepreneurs or independent researchers. Wrote a bit about this here: https://jacobobryant.com/p/what-im-trying-to-do/#1-help-buil... Also relevant: https://sahillavingia.com/work . I'd like to make a collection of part-time success stori…
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on “Show HN: Side Quest – An aggregator for not full-time tech jobs”Submitted Should you Work Hard? (2019) as a story · 107 points
HN discussion> repulsed by the idea of using a framework I think this is one of the memes in the community which is starting to be reconsidered. You're not alone in seeing these downsides, and people are starting to write about it more (code and words). Things like Fulcro or even Datomic Cloud are very interesting developments in this regard. [1]: https://jacobobryant.com/post/2019/grow/ [2]: http://flyingmachinestudios.com/prog…
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on “Why I like Clojure”Submitted Building a CRUD App with Datomic Cloud Ions as a story · 100 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK | Seattle | Remote: yes (preferred) Full-stack Clojure web developer with 4 years professional experience. Seeking part-time work while I bootstrap my own business ( https://sample.findka.com , a newsletter recommender system). I made a web framework: https://biff.findka.com . hello@jacobobryant.com. See also https://jacobobryant.com/freelancing/ .
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2021)”Submitted A mental model for decentralization as a story · 78 points
HN discussionI have a writeup for a previous app I made (a budgeting app) here: https://jacobobryant.com/post/2019/ion/ What things would you be interested in reading about? I'll likely have enough material for another writeup soon.
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on “Show HN: Lagukan, a highly personalized music service”Submitted The messy future of social media as a story · 75 points
HN discussion> Moreover investment of time on user side for newsletter delivering news increases with each newsletter vs One newsletter delivering what I want. You might be interested in this article[1] and the discussion of subscribed vs. filtered sources. It'd be nice to have a convenient way to assign different priorities to newsletters/content sources. So for a few, you'd get every issue, and for the rest, they'd be combined…
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on “Show HN: The Sample – newsletters curated for you with machine learning”Submitted Programmers and Musicians as a story · 70 points
HN discussion(FYI looks like Needgap is down right now; Cloudflare is showing me a 521 response) There are a few reasons. The biggest one is distribution. I came up with the idea for The Sample because I was working on an essay recommender system[1] and I was trying to figure out how to incentivise people to share it. I've built a referral system[2] into The Sample, and whenever someone submits a newsletter, I send them a referr…
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on “Show HN: The Sample – newsletters curated for you with machine learning”Submitted The Substack Narrative as a story · 13 points
HN discussionThis is the latest of several recommender systems[1] that I've attempted to grow over the past couple years. It launched in February and there are about 800 subscribers. The algorithm uses a collaborative filtering model ("people who liked X also liked Y"), and to help with cold-start I augment the training data with content-based filtering: I use keyword extraction (tf-idf) and a pre-trained language model (fastTex…
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on “Show HN: The Sample – newsletters curated for you with machine learning”Submitted The Solo Hacker's Guide to Clojure as a story · 7 points
HN discussionHere's one I did recently: https://jacobobryant.com/post/2019/pipeline/ (aggregate all the content you like on your personal website).
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on “What are some of side project ideas that don't take much time?”Submitted Newsletter platforms: please support 1-click subscribe as a story · 5 points
HN discussionhttps://prismjs.com/ I like it a lot. Simple, works great. Examples (these snippets are highlighted for bash and clojure): https://jacobobryant.com/post/2019/learn-clojure/
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on “Ask HN: How do you display code examples on your site?”Submitted The Solo Hacker's Guide to Clojure as a story · 5 points
HN discussionInteresting app idea. Something like https://jacobobryant.com/p/blog-new-take-on-rss/ ?
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on “Where is the quest for hyperpersonalization leading us?”Submitted AWS Battles, Episode 1: Deploying to Datomic Ions as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Brief History of Agile as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to build your own content curation pipeline as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Growing a Framework, Or, Clojure Made Easy as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Brief History of Agile as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Brief History of Agile as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I'm excited about newsletters as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted App idea: casual curated newsletters as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Protocol-Based Social Networking, Today as a story · 2 points
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